Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed
for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS computer operating systems. Being
widely used by businesspeople, educators, and trainers, it is among the
most prevalent forms of persuasion technology: according to its vendor,
Microsoft Corporation, some 30 million presentations are made with
PowerPoint every day.

In PowerPoint, as in most other presentation software, text, graphics,
movies, and other objects are positioned on individual pages or
"slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector, a
device which has become somewhat obsolete due to the use of PowerPoint
and other presentation software. Slides can be printed, or (more
usually) displayed on-screen and navigated through at the command of the
presenter. Transitions between slides can be animated in a variety of
ways, as can the emergence of elements on a slide itself. The overall
design of a presentation can be controlled with a master slide; and the
overall structure, extending to the text on each slide, can be edited
using a primitive outliner.

Presentations can be saved and run in any of the file formats : the
default .ppt (presentation), .pot (template) or .pps (PowerPoint Show).

What is PowerPoint?
Getting Started and Working in PowerPoint?
Understanding PowerPoint's Views.
Understanding PowerPoint Slide Masters and Templates.
Creating a Master Slide.
Transitions and Creating a Build Slide

"This tutorial was designed to explain some
of the basic concepts of PowerPoint 2000. It is geared to enable
you to realize the wide array of uses of the program, as well as to
utilize these to best fit your needs."